ADVERB
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as supposed or expected
sure enough, he asked her for money again -
definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely')
he'll win sure as shooting
the results are surely encouraging
sure he'll come
it's going to be a good day for sure
she certainly is a hard worker
they sure smell good
they thought he had been killed sure enough
they are coming, for certain
How To Use sure enough In A Sentence
- Sure enough, he found her there, looking at the posted casualty reports along with many others, searching the alphabetized lists of KIAs and WIAs.
- There was no help for it, he had to be left there, and I went away with an anxious mind as to what his busy teeth would be employed upon all night; and, sure enough, next morning a velvet curtain was found nibbled and tattered, and being converted into a nest for the enterprising gerbille! Wild Nature Won By Kindness
- Sure enough, this Heller language has served to protect a remarkable variety of federal gun restrictions challenged since Heller, including bans on gun possession by felons, domestic violence misdemeanants, and persons under restraining orders, bans on sawed-off shotguns and machine guns, laws restricting guns in school zones, post offices, and other public property, and others. Dennis A. Henigan: The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?
- Sure enough, hidden in a corner there was a shelf dedicated to the previous school years' yearbooks.
- Sure enough, the tremor of his voice instilled fear but something within felt familiar with his malevolent aura.
- Sure enough, Fishy tugged the rod back and clicked the button and a shiny fish wriggled directly in front of Lazarus' nose.
- Sure enough, the book has sex, death, trains and double-crosses in far-flung corners of Nazi-occupied Europe.
- Sure enough, after the four plantigrade toes, he went for the dewclaw. Grouse Diary Entry
- His skin was, sure enough, pale and colorless.
- Ye're aye cute, dame," I cried, thrawing the bit gy abune, and in a gliffing, doun jumpit the chiel, and a braw chiel he was sure enough, siccan my auld e'en sall ne'er see again, wi 'his brent brow and buirdly bowk wrappit in a tartan plaid, wi' a Highland kilt. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
